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Ketel Marte is back in the Arizona lineup after a two-week absence that shook the Diamondbacks organization. The three-time All-Star returned Monday and addressed the elephant in the room head-on, saying he failed manager Torey Lovullo after his no-show before a game in Boston left the club scrambling. Credit Marte for owning it.
Meanwhile in Boston, the Red Sox are dealing with a significant blow of their own. First baseman Willson Contreras, who's been the offensive engine of that lineup with a team-leading twenty-six home runs while batting two-seventy-four in his first season there, has been placed on the ten-day injured list with a strained left hamstring that's reportedly been nagging him for over a month now.
Shifting to the hardwood, the New York Knicks appear set to lose Miles McBride ahead of what many are projecting as a championship run in two thousand twenty-six. James Dolan's decision to stay under the second apron is tying the organization's hands, and with Jalen Brunson needing pieces around him, losing McBride is a real cost the front office is going to have to answer for.
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